From 038a87881067a629c79e70db41ef9a427ecbe223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Stephen P. Smith" Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:31:10 -0700 Subject: Add 'human' date format documentation Display date and time information in a format similar to how people write dates in other contexts. If the year isn't specified then, the reader infers the date is given is in the current year. By not displaying the redundant information, the reader concentrates on the information that is different. The patch reports relative dates based on information inferred from the date on the machine running the git command at the time the command is executed. While the format is more useful to humans by dropping inferred information, there is nothing that makes it actually human. If the 'relative' date format wasn't already implemented then using 'relative' would have been appropriate. Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-log.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/git-log.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 90761f1694..b02e922dc3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -192,6 +192,10 @@ log.date:: Default format for human-readable dates. (Compare the `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`. ++ +If the format is set to "auto:foo" and the pager is in use, format +"foo" will be the used for the date format. Otherwise "default" will +be used. log.follow:: If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when -- cgit v1.2.3